PANews August 5日消息, Circle announced that its open blockchain network Arc for global financial markets plans to go live on its public mainnet on September 16. The network is already running on a private mainnet and has attracted more than 100 institutional organizations and ecosystem participants. BlackRock, DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation), Galaxy, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group, Standard Chartered Bank, Sumitomo Corporation, and Visa will participate as Arc genesis validators, contributing to network security and governance. BlackRock plans to deploy its U.S.-dollar institutional digital liquidity fund BUIDL on Arc, and DTCC is working to integrate tokenization and settlement with Arc, supporting the tokenization of assets held at DTC to Arc for stablecoin-based on-chain settlement. Circle also plans to roll out an application framework, AI tools, and tokenized asset issuance management capabilities on Arc.